On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> On 2/18/14 4:34 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
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>> You don't necessary need a new slot to to use as an initialized flag. I most cases you can probably get away with using a "not yet initialized" token in some existing slot.
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> While true, doing that requires per-object-type whack-a-mole that we don't really want to force DOM spec authors into....

I think that could be handled generically in the WebIDL spec.  You can specify it as if there was a per object initialized flag.  But how that state is actually represented can be left to actual implementations to deal with.  

Allen

I think that could be handled generically in the WebIDL spec.  You can specify it as if there was a per object initialized flag.  But how that state is actually represented can be left to actual implementations to deal with.